Meaning of de gras | Babel Free

Definitions

Purified wool fat (lanolin).

uncountable

Examples

“The crude wool-fat, pure “de gras”, imported by the shipload to this country, principally from Marseilles, free from rosin oil, fish⟳ oil and other extraneous fats, selling at about 5 cents per pound, yields an article of as good absorbent power as lanolin, when prepared by the following process⟳: 60 parts de gras is freed from grosser impurities by melting and straining.”

“The oil, when cool, solidifies, and it is sold under the name⟳ of “de gras”, or Yorkshire grease.”

“... they could busy themselves greasing the mill machinery to preserve⟳ it from muddy water and any consequent rusting, use⟳ the barrels of de gras on hand for lubricating hemp. The mill would stink like⟳ a sheepfold, but nothing was more water-resistant than a thick layer of wool fat.”

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